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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
4
The Anita Record announces its second class mail entry on January 2, 1913, at the Anita post office in Cass County Iowa under the 1879 act. The notice confirms compliance with federal postal requirements for class of mail submission.
A grand Chautauqua program is planned for all, featuring the Venetian Guards Band of twenty Italian musicians, Anita Singing Orchestra, Dollie McDonnell Company, Drexler Fox, and a cartoonist piano act. Speakers include Judge Lee S Estelle of Omaha, Hon W S Nolan, and Dr Frederick Hopkins of Chicago.
A summer festival features an illustrated Asiatic travel lecture by Sumner R. Vinton with colored slides and motion pictures. Harwood S Manlove performs as a humorous impersonator of multiple nationalities. Children receive entertainment from a Seton Indian work instructor and classic Indian figures. An elevated auditorium tent with comfortable seating hosts five days of varied, wholesome attractions for all ages.
Fort Collins Review notes Justice Lighter has become a popular "marrying artist." Alford Hale and Audrey May Rice secured a county license to wed before him. After two Hale daughters married, Hale sought to marry his sweetheart, age sixteen, relying on her mother's written consent produced from his coat.
Friday evening patrons at the Staffs hotel filled the dining room for a chicken dinner and a wide array of other dishes, enjoying the hour of social eating.
The poem celebrates spring’s arrival with birds returning, flowers blooming, and sunlit meadows. streams, boughs, and woods fill with music and fragrance. It foresees richer growth, sweetness from blossoms, and the renewal of hope and promise throughout the year.
The essay argues that birth status should not define worth and that character, intellect, and determination enable social ascent. It contrasts low born with well born, notes the moral dangers of power among the low born, and cites Lincoln as an example of merit overcoming birth. It ends by suggesting true worth comes from inner qualities rather than lineage.
The Cass County assessment as filed with the county auditor shows results but notes a playful aside that city town and country teachers will have saved enough from their yearly salaries for a prolonged spree vacation until the new school year begins.
A letter from Prof. Randolph notes Rassmussen is in Shreveport Louisiana and in good health. While touring the south he met W F Whitcomb, a former traveling man in the territory once connected with Anita and local businessmen Fred M Tidrick and Chas M Blakesley. Rastus is doing well, according to Anita friends.
Early Friday morning a vicious wind storm struck the area followed by a heavy rain. Clouds looked like a cyclone at times as tree limbs flew about and the scene remained unsettled and unpleasant.
Attendance at Anita Memorial Day exercises was light as farmers delay work due to wet conditions. Henry T. Chapin of Grinnell, supervising farm building projects in Lincoln township, visits neighbors. He says Mrs. Chapin is not well but improving, and daughter Miss Gertrude Chapin is in excellent health.
A local column notes a chorus of birds in Anita around the Recorp editor’s home. The author urges kindness to the feathered visitors, praising their eating of worms and insects and asking residents to feed and protect them. Mentions civic improvements by the Anita Cemetery Association led by Jas. B. Herriman to beautify the grounds.
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